On Saturday, go outside about an hour after sunset, look to the western sky and spot Mercury, Venus and Saturn close to the horizon.

Unlike a solar eclipse, this spectacle won’t require any special eye protection. It will be safe to watch with the naked eye, binoculars, or a telescope.

A team of astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope has detected a faint but tantalizing signal from the center of the Milky Way: a possible millisecond pulsar spinning once every 8.19 milliseconds, ...

Why do some places wait 1,000 years to see a total solar eclipse while others get two in a decade? The surprising orbital ...

Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that formed beyond the orbits of its gaseous neighbors, possibly after much of the ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

When is time change for daylight saving time 2026? Here's when we spring forward and whether Ohio will ever get rid of it.

Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak, a small icy body orbiting Jupiter’s neighborhood, did something astronomers rarely witness ...

An international research team announces the discovery of a new exoplanet orbiting a binary star system. Named HD 143811 b, this giant planet joins the very exclusive club of exoplanets detected ...

3I/ATLAS has highlighted the incredible versatility of the many craft humans have sent out into our solar system.

Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi have usedrare total solar eclipses to gain unprecedented insights into the turbulent structures of the sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona. This discovery, ...

The Sun will die, and it’s going to be spectacular. In approximately five billion years, our star will exhaust the hydrogen ...